Folk & Traditional Music

More than fifty years ago, on a trip dubbed the Southern Journey, Alan Lomax visited Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tenness...

Reconstructs the socio-political history of the heroic in music through case studies spanning the middle ages to the twenty-first century The firs...

In the twentieth century, Appalachian migrants seeking economic opportunities relocated to southwestern Ohio, bringing their music with them. Betwe...

In the twentieth century, Appalachian migrants seeking economic opportunities relocated to southwestern Ohio, bringing their music with them. Betwe...

'Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived' Stewart Lee'Without doubt one of Eng...

In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art...

An intimate and thorough account of the life and times of Brenda Wootton, Cornwall''s first lady of song. From the late 1960s for over 20 years, Br...

This book is an attempt to place the Wolfe Tones, arguably Ireland''s most popular and internationally successful folk and ballad band, in its poli...

When singer-songwriter Alan Hull joined the group Brethren in 1969, and they were renamed Lindisfarne shortly afterwards, nobody could have foresee...

The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), c...

The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), c...

The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the first time since their original publication (1969, 1977, 1981), c...

A song, so old and yet still famous is a Malay expression of admiration for an exotic singing style, a musical contemplation on the beauty of natur...

Dave van ronk (1936-2002) was not only one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk music revival he was a pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fin...